The other day I blogged about a list of RIA frameworks. Apparently TheServerSide.com picked it up and spiked the traffic. Anyway, by the end of the review, I came across SmartClient and I was tired of RIA Frameworks and they all looked the same. I gave them too quick of a look and moved on.…
I am flying through the air, 400 miles per hour and 50,000 feet above the ground. No net. My legs are pressed up against a steel bar in front of me. I am being mildy shaken like an infant being held. This is a good time for thinking. In the airport, I picked up a…
NOTE: I am not an engineer. I am very good with HTML/CSS and I love jQuery. The following is from that point of view. I was wondering what the state of RIA Frameworks were these days. Have more competitors popped up? How easy are they? As a non-engineer, I wondered if any were easy for…
I don’t think this applies to everyone, but it applies to me many times over. When I feel like I can not make “progress” I get very stressed. My mind doesn’t think as well, my body feels ill. I generally have a short temper when I am in this state. Progress is my minds digestion…
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/09/chryslers-shock.html Why has this taken so long? Minivan owners’s are EXACTLY the kind of people who want an electric car. It’s quieter, more eco-friendly and saves gas. Minivan drivers are in that 40 mile a day category. I am so happy that someone finally announced this. Now, I just need to wait until 2011 to…
A truck was coming down the hill near Molly Stone’s. The brakes failed. The truck couldn’t slow down. It careened helplessly into the Molly Stones parking lot. All of my family has been in that exact spot a hundred times. We walk across the parking lot with just a quick glance for cars. We weren’t…
Sometimes I feel like GMail is trying to make a bad experience on purpose. Google has a counter at the bottom of the screen that tracks how much space you are using. Since I use Picasa and have thousands of photos, I purchased the annual storage upgrade. They give me about 7 or gigs of…
I have not had alot of time to think lately. Most of my “ideas” are focused on Marketo. However, my AjaxExperience presentation is due and I have not “nailed it”. I went to sleep worrying about it. I work up at 4am this morning. Mostly asleep, but this idea kept nagging me. With this idea,…
Wow, Tiny Fey did a great job mimicking Sarah Palin. The accent and the facial expressions were spot on. I thought Amy Poehler wasn’t nearly as good. I loved the line that accused Sarah Palin of wearing “Tiny Fey glasses”. I didn’t think about that before, but maybe Sarah Palin is doing her best Tiny…
Powerpoint is a great tool for communicating, if you use it right. Most people don’t do it right. Here are a few (but not all) guidelines: Do not make people READ. It is very hard to read and listen at the same time. Do this excercise: Read and article from a magazine about a subject,…
Ever since NetFlix almost removed sub-accounts, I have been thinking about how they could accomplish the same thing without the hassle of separate accounts. I know Bill Scott is kicking ass for them, but I thought I would throw this idea over the wall. The idea is to specify family members in the account and…
Saw Butterfly effect. Really freaked me out. Think about the turning points in your life. How could they have gone different? Would it have been better? or Worse? Thinking about taxes. I like my taxes being spent on some things and not others. For instance, I like my taxes being spent on schools, roads, bridges,…
ALERT: This is the coolest thing I have seen in MONTHS! If you have Picasa, you have to try this. It’s called Name Tagging. You enable it. Mine took about an hour or so to crawl through all the photos. When it was done, I realized that it put these little squares (only available if…
I decided to try using Chrome for a specific set of sites. It shouldn’t be a surprise that the list is “Sites owned by Google”. This includes Gmail, Picasa, Reader, Docs, Calendar, etc. I have already noticed an improvement in performance. Specifically, Picasa is MUCH faster. I don’t know what happened, but its going super…